Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Anonymity

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the discussion was:  keep. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 07:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Anonymity

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Disclaimed as a work in progress for 15 years, but still really not much context at all to make cohesive what is largely a collection of links to other essays and failed proposals. Bsherr (talk) 04:48, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep. A perfectly reasonable multi-authored Wikipedia essay.  Essays are not deleted for not being polished. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 12:47, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep Per Smokey, and also nom has not actually provided a reason for deletion. A sloppy essay isn't a policy violation and would just be a case of WP:IDONTLIKEITSulfurboy (talk) 18:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I'll try to provide more detail. I'm trying to achieve some consolidation in the Category:Wikipedia privacy topic. This page isn't actually an essay, it's a collection of links, and was always intended to be just a collection of links. That's why its lead says "Some of Wikipedia's pages on anonymity." It was only later labeled as an essay, I suppose for lack of any other categorization, after it was essentially fully formed into as you see it now. As it is, it is largely redundant with the other pages. The section on the privacy policy and open proxies is covered much better in Personal security practices, and CheckUser in On privacy, confidentiality and discretion, and both of those essays also have see also sections with, between them, most of the same links. And this page is for the most part an orphan. So, if you don't mind me turning it around, to the extent this is an essay, can anyone tell me what the nutshell of it is? Because I can't figure it out. And if we keep it, what is its future? Do we expand its content so it actually contains information like an essay? Do we streamline it to make it just a landing page for a collection of links? (And yes, I know there's nothing "bad" about having a billion essays on the same topic all saying the same thing in different ways with varying degrees of quality, but there's also nothing bad about trying to curate that information in a rational way. Deletion isn't always punitive.) I'm trying to better organize the information so that someone searching for information about anonymity on Wikipedia actually gets some information, and right now, On privacy, confidentiality and discretion is simply a much better target for the title. --Bsherr (talk) 13:28, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * You are very likely to get a lot of leeway with actively consolidating. Merge similar essays, sure, archive others to tidy loose threads, sure.  As long as you don't actually delete any history, as long as anyone in future can disagree and revert, then all is good.  Delete a well-edited 2005 essay?  No.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:00, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Keep, collections can be useful. And per the above reasons. – SJ + 19:02, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep - No significant case to delete. Not much of a case to keep as is, but might be worked on.  Robert McClenon (talk) 16:04, 18 April 2020 (UTC)
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